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Date:      Fri, 16 May 1997 02:36:13 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? 
Message-ID:  <5942.863775373@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 May 1997 12:09:21 %2B0300." <199705160909.MAA22617@silver.sms.fi> 

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> Most of the video CD's are actually ISO9660 formatted stuff (at least
> most of the ones I've run into, though my exposure is limited to about
> 10 disks). So you have one large mpeg system stream in /MPEGAV/
> subdirectory which is playable with players that play mpeg system
> streams.

Interesting.  I first got "Star Trek IV, The undiscovered country" out
and saw that it was clearly labelled "CD-I" - not unsurprisingly, it
wouldn't mount as an ISO9660 volume (it'd still be nice to figure out
how to play it as it's my favorite disk, but hey - I know it was an
early rev of the spec :).  Then I got "Addam's Family Values" which
is simply labelled as "Video CD" and, sure enough:

root@time-> cd /cdrom
root@time-> ls
abstract.txt    cdi             mpegav
biblio.txt      copyrigh.txt    vcd
root@time-> ls -l mpegav/
total 381380
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     768000 May 20  1994 avseq01.dat
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    4933632 May 20  1994 avseq02.dat
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  384831488 May 20  1994 avseq03.dat

So..  I then tried the new xanim on this and was rewarded with
the following on my console:

cd0(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 Illegal mode for this track
cd0(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 Illegal mode for this track

(xanim, of course, promptly said "bleah!").

"Hmmmm!" says I.  I tried it then on the HP 4020i drive, using
the worm driver.  No doggie bisquit for me:

worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4d asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC
worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4e asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC
worm0(ahc0:2:0): MISCOMPARE info:d4d asc:a7,0 Vendor Specific ASC

Same basic problem.  Any other ideas? ;-)

					Jordan



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